Wednesday 1 October 2008

Remember me?!

New Lampworking Set UpWell hello!

We've landed! The move went well and we've spent the past week unpacking things and finding them new homes. It's quite difficult to go from a big house to a small one. Square peg, round hole and all that.

The new house is lovely, the area is nice and the neighbours are great. Everyone around here is just so friendly! It's also really fab being a ten minute bike ride away from my grandparents. It felt very odd popping over there for lunch the other day when it used to take an hour-and-a-bit in the car to go and visit them!

I haven't got lost yet. Mind you, Dad did draw me a map that I've been taking out with me when I venture out on my bike. Yes - I really am that bad. Buster could have done with a map the other day. He went out early one morning and stayed out for seventeen hours which is unheard of! I was so worried about him. I thought he'd tried to do that thing that you hear of when cats try and return to their old home. Thankfully his cat-nav was working and at ten o'clock at night he appeared at the back door. Phew!

Dad and I spent Monday setting up my new work space - see photo above. It's very swish. My propane is outside in a little shed, I've got great light and ventilation, the conservatory is warm and spider-free and I've got my 'office' space next to my workbench. Beads By Laura Central, or what? Please ignore the masking tape that's holding my propane and oxygen hoses in place. I've got to get some clips for those. My desks are both very tidy at the moment - give it a week and I'm sure they'll look a bit different!

I've made beads today and I'll post a photograph of them tomorrow. Don't get too excited - they're just plain and simple lentils. Pretty, though. I made plain and simple beads for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I haven't made beads for about a fortnight so I've got to get back into the swing of things. Secondly, because the conservatory is so light and bright compared to my shed I had terrible trouble seeing the flame properly. To do my usual stringerwork I need to see exactly where the edge of the flame is. The flame is mainly blue and it doesn't help that my workbench is blue too. So I nipped to B&Q this afternoon (for about the tenth time in the past week) and got some black ceramic tiles to put on the bench in front of the torch. The flame shows up lovely now so I'll hopefully get some more complex beads made tomorrow.

Big thanks to everyone who has sent me 'new home' emails and cards - I'm going to sit down and set about answering those tonight. Now I'm all sorted the beadmaking and blogging will hopefully get back to some sort of normality!

7 comments:

  1. Helloooo!! I'm glad you've been settling in well - I've been thinking about you. Your new work space looks great - lovely and big and clean!

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  2. Welcome back! Glad the move went well - that's a lovely work space. Looking forward to seeing your new creations.

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  3. Glad to hear you're settling in really well. I missed your blogging! xx

    By the way, now you're only down the road I expect to see you at Oxford Town Hall on the 9th November for the Handm@de fair ;)

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  4. Glad the move went well, hope you are settling in. Looking forward to seeing your new beads.

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  5. Nice to have you back on-line, Laura! It seemed like you were gone for ages. The new work space looks great; good luck with your new creations. :-)

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  6. Glad everything went well with the move Laura, it's nice to have you back.

    Your new workspace looks great. Looking forward to drooling over more of your beads now you're settled. ;o)

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  7. Cheers ladies!

    Steph - I shall be there! :o)

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